Lyndsey McCartney, BACP, NCPS

Lyndsey McCartney is a counsellor registered with BACP and NCPS and has eight years of clinical experience in the United Kingdom. She focuses on bereavement and loss alongside common difficulties such as depression, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting concerns and career uncertainty. She also addresses trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue and anger in her work.

She uses practical, talk-based sessions that combine Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with client-centred and psychodynamic ideas. Sessions include learning about thoughts and behaviours, noticing patterns, and trying small changes between meetings. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing techniques are also part of her approach when relevant.

Lyndsey has worked with people coping with the death of a loved one or pet, separation and divorce, and losses tied to health or work. She also supports those dealing with abandonment or attachment difficulties, guilt and shame, isolation, and questions about life purpose and midlife change.

Sessions aim to be interactive and educational. Clients can expect a clear focus on current problems, practical strategies to test, and space to reflect on past experiences that affect present behaviour. Lyndsey explains ideas in straightforward language and sets concrete steps to try between sessions.

She offers guidance on managing everyday pressures like money worries, social anxiety, career decisions and parenting strain. People who want a structured, problem-focused way to notice unhelpful thoughts and experiment with different responses may find her approach useful.

How Lyndsey’s approaches translate to online counselling